# Network Design Specialist

**Company**: Telstra
**Location**: Australia (Flexible)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Network Design Specialist to join our team in Australia. As a Network Design Specialist, you will undertake complex and specialised technical microwave transport design functions to ensure projects are delivered to desired outcomes. You will provide high-level specialist technical expertise, advice, and system and process support to staff engaged in design functions.

Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills are core to your role, in addition to having a passion for continuous learning, development, and a willingness to work within a dynamic team.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop end-to-end microwave transmission designs for new builds, upgrades, capacity augmentation, and technology refresh programs.

- Perform microwave path engineering, path profiling, and link budget analysis.

- Select appropriate microwave radios, antennas, transmission equipment, and supporting infrastructure.

- Conduct frequency planning, coordination, spectrum management, and interference analysis.

- Assess path availability, resilience, latency, capacity requirements, and propagation performance.

- Ensure compliance with engineering standards, architectural principles, telecommunications regulations, and spectrum licensing requirements.

- Provide technical assurance by reviewing and approving designs from internal and external delivery partners.

- Support construction, commissioning, implementation, and acceptance testing activities.

- Collaborate with Planning, Delivery, Operations, Property, LA&E, Construction, EME, and vendor teams to resolve complex design challenges.

- Provide specialist technical advice, mentoring, and support to other designers and project stakeholders.

- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, innovation, and optimisation of design practices and processes.

**Benefits**

- Performance-related pay

- Access to thousands of learning programs

- Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business

- Purchased annual leave scheme

- Additional Telstra day off

- Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

- Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

**Requirements**

- Extensive previous experience in point-to-point microwave radio design.

- Ability to interpret High-Level Planning & Design Briefs.

- Strong interpersonal skills that allow you to develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve required outcomes.

- Attention to detail, ability to work across multiple initiatives and prioritise work independently.

- A high level of oral and written communication skills with an ability to effectively communicate with all levels of business.

**What We Offer**

If you're passionate about microwave network design, collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering infrastructure that makes a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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## Skills

### Required
- microwave transmission design
- path profiling
- link budget analysis
- frequency planning
- spectrum management
- interference analysis

### Nice to have
- engineering qualifications
- previous radio (RF) related experience in the telecommunications industry
- knowledge of the Telecommunications Act (Cth) 1997

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